The musings, rants, and dissertations of 3 retired military guys and 1 chick. Two Air Force, two Navy. Old AF Sarge, Juvat, Tuna, & LUSH.

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Saturday at Chez Sarge

Sunset, Saturday 29 August 2015

I am blessed to live in a place of great beauty, some of it natural, some sculpted by my wife's own hand. Her work in the garden seems to never end and in a week, that all becomes my responsibility.For The WSO is with child and her due date rapidly approaches, so her mom, The Missus Herself, will be winging out to California to babysit Little Bit and provide moral support.Dear Lord, I will have to tend to the plants, entertain myself and feed myself. Should be quite a challenge as I am an indifferent cook. I think I better dust off the cookbooks and prepare myself to be Gordon Ramsay. I am so going to screw this up I fear.

But somehow, much like those ancestors of mine who were English, I shall muddle through.On the upside I'm still grounded, medically speaking, no work for at least another month, so I needn't worry about that. I am afraid though of going stark, raving mad. While I do manage to find things to do to keep the mind occupied, somewhat, being semi-housebound is getting wearisome. Well, I am recovering so I guess I can drive myself now.I admit to being a bit spoiled at this point in time.I really don't have much to say today. Too beautiful to stay inside on Saturday so I did wander the grounds. Took some more photos.I did watch a movie or two on Netflix. That well is starting to run dry though. My kingdom for some new content!Oh well, I guess I'll show you the photos. I've got naught else to share. Maybe the Muse will stop by Sunday afternoon. You never know, she can be fickle at times.

Feeding time for the koi.

Not exactly a feeding frenzy, but they do get a bit excited at meal times.

Flowers, just inside the west fence.

Miniature Japanese Maple

One of our Asian style stone lamps.

The neighbor's pool. He has a nice setup. I love the quality of the light in late afternoon.

It's interesting you gave the shout out to needing to be Ramsay- having bought his course, I can say that his recipes are generally so basic that it's almost impossible to truly screw them up. You can fail at the technique and still have a great meal out of it- I know I did for about a week, as in the Seuss vein with the wife traveling for business a few years back I had "Steak for Supper" every night for a week. And by evening three, I was certain I was hitting his pan cooking technique on all cylinders to a point the man himself would have enjoyed the meal.

You know, if you like cajun/creole, a number of folks have come together to put like 30 odd episodes of Justin Wilson on YouTube. His stuff was always simple too- and most of those recipes simply require letting them simmer themselves into happy oblivion...

Since we moved to the beach, I really miss my Japanese Garden. I worked on it for thirty years, knew every rock by name. Here, I tend an herb garden for the folks. Got attacked by fire ants second time in and am still recovering. Screw the basil and mint. The view, the sand and the ocean are wonderful. Couldn't have lived liked this in California for less than a bunch of $$. Does tend to rain and blow some.

This feature in your yard is truly amazing.Did you do this all by yourself or did you have some people design and install this for you?Your pictures and photo subjects are just superb.This would be nice being placed in my front or back yard or both.Heltau